Rainer,

i've seen that bug, it's for RH5.0 ..i am at 5.3

see emc173549

ID: emc173549

Fact Product: Celerra

Fact Protocol: Network File System (NFSv4)

Fact OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Symptom Cannot set ACLs for Linux Clients using NFSv4 for some RHEL versions.

Symptom Cannot run the Linux setfacl command on Linux client

Symptom setfacl command on Linux client returns "Operation not supported"

Cause There is a flaw with setting ACLs in RHEL4 and a version of RHEL5 which do not
allow ACLs to be set. A network trace will show no attempt to make a setattr call.
This is documented further at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=231231

Fix Upgrade to a later version of RHEL.

Hi dynamox,

maybe a regression

I would take a quick network trace and see if that setattr is getting onto the wire.
Also try with a Solaris client if you can - its NFS is more stable (IMHO) than Linux's

Rainer

i am making progress trying to setacl from a Sun box. I've got domain name configured identically on Sun and Celerra ..yet when i try to "setfacl" i get "Permissions denied" and Celerra logs shows "NFS: 3: setacl cannot convert SID for owner bob@contoso.com".I think i am at the point where i have to get authentication working. My current setup uses usermapper with Active directory, but we also have LDAP in the environment. Can i use LDAP just for NFS4 authentication ? We do not have NIS and i dont' think password/group file will work for a big environment.

Thanks a lot